## Meanings
1. A hard, smooth stone, often white or patterned, used in buildings and statues.
2. To give something a streaked, swirled pattern like marble.

## Examples
- The grand hall had a floor of polished white marble.
- She marbled the paper using paint floating on water.

## Derived Forms
- emmarble
- enmarble
- marbelic
- marble-hearted
- marblefish
- marbleization
- marbleless
- marblelike
- marbleness
- marbler
- marbles
- marblette

## Related Forms
- marmoreal

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: marble
- Root: marbre
- Root: marmor
- Root: μάρμαρος

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

## AI Etymology
Marble is inherited from Middle English marble, marbre; from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). The forms from French displaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin. In present-day English its meanings include a hard, smooth stone, often white or patterned, used in buildings and statues and to give something a streaked, swirled pattern like marble. The historical chain runs through marble (Middle English), marbre (Old French), marmor (Latin), and μάρμαρος (Ancient Greek). Related and derived forms include marmoreal, emmarble, enmarble, and marbelic.

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